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The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)
Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ...
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)
Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ...
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ...
Endogenous Norm Formation over the Life Cycle. The Case of Tax Evasion
(2011-06)
This paper offers an explanation to why the general observation that elderly hold stronger moral attitudes than young ones may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain ...
Decoupling: Is there a Separate Contribution from Environmental Taxation
(2011-01)
Decoupling is a crucial topic in the analysis of sustainable development.
Without decoupling, continuing and increasing economic growth in
developed and developing countries would come with ever increasing
environmental ...
Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)
This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ...
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot
normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand
second-order beliefs. We find that ...
Costs of misspecification in break-model unit-root tests
(2012-08)
This paper examines power issues for the ADF and four break models (Perron 1989, Zivot
and Andrews 1992) when the DGP corresponds to one of the break models. Choosing to test an incorrect break model can but need not ...
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting
parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and
post-birth components. We use three ...
Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior
(2010-08)
This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ...